May 2020: the main classical music anniversaries to celebrate
Every month, composers and musicians to remember! Classical music and opera have brought out tens of thousands of artists, are performed in thousands of venues and their composers have written scores in great numbers throughout 10 centuries of history. From January 1 to December 31, there are therefore many opportunities to remember a composer or discover an artist, to explore a genre or to expand a work' s knowledge.
May 2020 : essential commemorations
2020 is, as every year, an opportunity to celebrate many centenarians or multi-centenarians related to classical music and opera. In May 2020, some well-known or not so famous artists, composers or musicians, are to be commemorated: Aleksander Kovač (100th anniversary, Birth), Jean-Marie Auberson (100th anniversary, Birth), Konstantin Lyadov (200th anniversary, Birth), Guðmundur Jónsson (100th anniversary, Birth), Gareth Morris (100th anniversary, Birth).
There are many more: 1920, 1820, 1720...
What's next? Every month, dozens of anniversaries are good reasons to discover a work, to rediscover a musician. June 2020? ... In a year? May 2021...
Day by day, all celebrations for May 2020
Aleksander Kovač, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, opera singer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Jean-Marie Auberson, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, Swiss musician (1920-2004)
100th anniversary (Birth)
Alessandro Scarlatti, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, Italian composer
360th anniversary (Birth)
Emil von Reznicek, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, Austrian late Romantic composer
160th anniversary (Birth)
Guillaume Connesson, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, French composer
50th anniversary (Birth)
Paul Abraham, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, Hungarian composer
60th anniversary (Death)
Hortense Schneider, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, singer
100th anniversary (Death)
Konstantin Lyadov, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, Russian conductor (1820-1871)
200th anniversary (Birth)
Niccolò Piccinni, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, Italian composer
220th anniversary (Death)
Carl Stamitz, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, German composer of partial Czech ancestry
275th anniversary (Birth)
Hugo Alfvén, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter (1872-1960)
60th anniversary (Death)
Luigi Nono, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, Italian composer
30th anniversary (Death)
Giovanni Paisiello, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, Italian composer of the Classical era
280th anniversary (Birth)
Christoph Graupner, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, German composer
260th anniversary (Death)
Gabriela Montero, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, Venezuelan musician
50th anniversary (Birth)
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, French army officer
260th anniversary (Birth)
Guðmundur Jónsson, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, opera singer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Charles Avison, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, English composer
250th anniversary (Death)
Gabriel Fauré, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, French composer, organist, pianist and teacher
175th anniversary (Birth)
Gareth Morris, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, British musician
100th anniversary (Birth)
Anne Akiko Meyers, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, American concert violinist
50th anniversary (Birth)
Jeremy Denk, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, American classical pianist
50th anniversary (Birth)
Pauline Viardot, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, French mezzo-soprano and composer
110th anniversary (Death)
Karl Goldmark, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, Hungarian composer
190th anniversary (Birth)
Francesco Maria Piave, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, Italian librettist
210th anniversary (Birth)
Jean-Pierre Rampal, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, French flutist
20th anniversary (Death)
Gustave Vogt, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, French oboist, composer and music educator
150th anniversary (Death)
Michał Bergson, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, Polish musician
200th anniversary (Birth)
Carmelo Mollica, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, actor, opera singer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Hephzibah Menuhin, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, American musician
100th anniversary (Birth)
Franz von Suppé, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, Austrian composer and conductor
125th anniversary (Death)
Alexander Fesca, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, German musician
200th anniversary (Birth)
Howard Mawson, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, Canadian singer and opera singer
100th anniversary (Birth)
Georg Jarno, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, Hungarian composer
100th anniversary (Death)
Niccolò Paganini, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, Italian violinist and composer (1782–1840)
180th anniversary (Death)
Leonardo Vinci, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, Italian opera composer
290th anniversary (Death)
Opera
“Die blaue Mazur”, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music
Premiere in 1920 (100th anniversary)
Isaac Albéniz, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, Spanish composer
160th anniversary (Birth)
Mily Balakirev, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor
110th anniversary (Death)
George London, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, opera singer from Canada
100th anniversary (Birth)
Joachim Neander, Celebrations (May 2020), Classical music, German minister and composer
340th anniversary (Death)